Radiotherapy Pre-Treatment Assistant and Care path Co-Ordinator

To undertake both clinical and administrative tasks to increase and maintain the efficiency of the pre-treatment pathway for patients receiving radiotherapy at Weston Park Cancer Centre, ensuring compliance with national cancer waiting time targets wherever possible.

The radiotherapy department provides high quality patient services and care to patients receiving cancer treatment in Weston Park Cancer Centre from across the South Yorkshire and Northeast Derbyshire., This role holder will work within the pre-treatment team of radiographers, dosimetrists and medical staff to monitor the patient pathway and ensure tasks are scheduled correctly, waiting time compliance is achieved wherever possible and enabling activities have been undertaken to allow continuation of the patient pathway.

The pre-treatment section is the area that cancer patients first visit within the radiotherapy pathway. The role holder will perform clinical assistant duties within this pre-treatment section including:

• Giving and receiving patient information

• Providing reassurance and support

• Signposting to other services

• Checking Identity

• Safety screening

• Some direct clinical patient procedures

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.